The student tested-and-reviewed way to prep for the medicine shelf exam and the USMLE Step 2 CK "I thought it was a fantastic review. The questions covered a wide variety of important key areas in medicine without going into more esoteric topics. I felt the answers were discussed very thoroughly as well, and incorporated a lot of current information." -- Reza Samad, Medical School, SUNY Upstate Medical University "The answers were of consistently high quality . . . and present necessary concepts in a concise manner that hopefully will reinforce an existing fund of knowledge." -- Edward Gould,

More and more medical schools are offering complementary and alternative medicine content in their programs, or elective courses in complementary medicine. There are many exhaustive, comprehensive books on complementary and alternative medicine but what students want are the essential elements that impact them. Those interested, for instance, in Reiki can then research it further. Ready access to accurate information on contemporary therapies keeps clerks and residents ahead of their patients (and colleagues) Medical doctors and healthcare professionals as contributing authors offer

The medicine ball, a popular exercise tool in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, is now making a comeback in the year 2001. The trend in fitness is toward core strength; strong abdominals, obliques and back muscles. The core group of muscles or "core" are often the initial source of physical movement. Therefore, having a strong core is crucial to both sport success for the athlete and functional movement for the average person. Because of it’s size, weight, and easy handling ability, the medicine ball is an excellent exercise tool for working the core. The Great Medicine Ball

Thomas Robert Malthus’s reputation has lately been rehabilitated in the fields of social biology, demography, environmentalism, and economics. In the midst of this current interest and with the chance to mark the occasion of the bicentenary of the first edition of the Essay on Population (1798), the contributors to this volume take this timely opportunity to examine the historical conditions in which Malthus constructed his theory, and in which the concept of a ’Malthusian’ and ’Neo-Malthusian’ philosophy first emerged. The essays redress the balance between Mal

The second volume of this book series on the modern practice of Chinese medicine continues with the focus on evidence-based TCM research. It is focused on detailed information about the best sources of herbal supply and its quality control required for research and drug development purposes. Herbal quality has always been a major concern for TCM researchers because it is difficult to know which is of the best quality. Some other popular topics are also entertained.